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Cops Count Cash After Cannabis Catch

Two CHP officers count cash on the hood of their vehicle. [Crop of photo provided by a reader]

A California Highway Patrol officer pulled over a white Dodge Ram with dealer plates about 4:30 p.m. on Redwood Drive in Redway.

CHP officers counting what appeared to be pounds of marijuana.[Crop of photo provided by a reader]

According to a witness, other officers soon joined the first. The officers then began searching large garbage bags located in the bed of the pickup. They appeared to discover multiple pounds of marijuana.

Then the officers began searching the cab of the truck. “Every place they looked, they kept pulling out more and more bundles of cash,” the witness said. The officers counted the cash as seen in the top photo.

Eventually, the driver was taken away in a CHP vehicle. Presumably, he was arrested. We’ll update with more information tomorrow.

I didn’t know it was a seperate species until my 3/4 ton farm pick up was parked next to and dwarfed by multiple giant, shiny, tricked out, chrome ladened cub cab pick ups with their multiple large guard dogs chained in the back on a visit to Garberville.

Who pissed in your Cheerios this morning..? So much hate for someone you don’t know. Basically you don’t know shit about this person, their life, their family, and apparently you feel the need to be an ass. Get a life.

You are confused. Read the laws a little closer, unless transporting marijuana to a dispensary (which requires permits), you can only transport 1 ounce of your beloved “cannabis” in a vehicle. Let’s just call it what it is, drug dealer who likely doesn’t pay taxes gets arrested for being a drug dealer. The End.

Actually that’s not “The end.” There’s still a thing called due process which begins at the point of arrest. Chances are if this person was carrying that much cash with him/her then he/she probably has enough cash elsewhere to be used for an attorney who has the skills to get the stolen money back from the government thieves. The big question though is if this person is wise enough to know to do that. Either way it’s far from “The end.” at this point.

Why are you messing with people in possession of money or weed. We the citizens do not want that. We want you to deal,with the worse drugs. When was a big bust on those? Oh ya they don’t happen cause Humboldt is laundering money galore!!

They don’t really need to slip the money in to their pocket, the money will be theirs through asset forfeiture anyways. That’s why they go after pot dealers- growers because they have money. The heroin and meth ring are run by pretty well organized crime syndicates out of Mexico, they have enough sense not to keep a large amount of money with their illegal products, they don’t put all their eggs in one basket in other words. The underlings and the users are generally completely broke and have no money to pay fines, add to that most of the higher-ups that get busted with large quantities of illegal drugs are generally undocumented illegal immigrants and seeing how California is a sanctuary state, why bother processing them into the system. Seeing’s how the police force has been turned into nothing but a revenue enforcement agency for the country and State.

These are literally the first four articles that came up when I Googled redheaded Blackbelt meth heroin big bust.

More money than those 20 something knucklehead wookies will ever hold right there… must make them think…. hummmm ” I am in the wrong business”…. or as they slighly slip 20 or 30 bills away…… “I am in the right business… free donuts for the department, new swat gear new vests and firearms…… geez we love asset forfeiture theft!”

A $50,000 dollar a year job to start, paid vacations, excellent health/dental insurance that covers your immediate family and a pension that allows them to live plenty comfortably in retirement. That’s sounds horrible.
There’s a lot of moaning these days from growers who pissed their money away like it grew on trees (no pun intended). All the property, vehicles & toys, doesn’t add up to the salary and benefits that law enforcement receive. The hidden perks out weigh stacks of cash.

50,000 a year can’t support a family. We barely make ends meet for our family of 3 on a $65,000/year salary. Thanks to Obama care, our health insurance is now more than our car payment. I can see why people are still trying to get their money in cash while they still can.

Ill gotten goods is right…. For one the farmer in the truck mostly likely farmed this medicine, was honest in his endeavors to sell the product he lovingly grew…. and was getting paid for their hard work…..
The officers on the other hand are nothin but Highway Bandits.. thieves… robbers! The farmer has every right to his property…. the cops are doing their jobs, but they are thieves and no different than a home invader in the middle of the night! Pure ripoffs and thieves who will carry the karma of their actions the rest of their lives

He is right though, on a moral level a thief is way worse than a farmer, regardless if it is cannabis….
Regardless if the thief if empowered by a badge, he still uses a gun and threats of violence to rob the property…. Asset Forfeiture laws corrupt Police Forces.. a thief is a thief regardless

With our elected officials changing permit laws and regs at their own discretion, expect more of this as the illegal grows start coming back. They are really messing with a good money maker for state and county for their own greed and power.

And Also with our local supervisor living in an unpermitted house on illegally subdivided land, it’s all a farce .The trac and trace will not work with the state trac and trace .The county is run by crooks .Supervisors and building inspectors having investments in growers and farms .Completly corrupt county

Well it would appear that if so many werent heeling like good little robots maybe the laws should be changed. There is no need to make otherwise good people into crimminals simply because a few folks dont like what they do. Live and let live live your life stop attenpting to control others and the world could be a happy place.

A dealer license plate, as in the ones issues to car dealerships by DMV? or those cardstock paper plates advertising the dealership the vehicle was purchased from, because the vehicle (for whatever reason) does not have plates issued by DMV, yet?

Cop one “how many 20s in a thousand?” Cop two “ im just making stacks of 5 20s then when I get to 10 stacks of 5 I put that together until….shit,I lost track again?” Cop two “ so 10 stacks of 5s is a hundred dollars?” Cop one “just pretend we know what we’re doing and put the money on the hood!”

Typical of so many pot posters. Thinking that alleging dishonesty by cops zeros out the dishonesty of the criminals. Same as thinking producing recreational drugs is just like farming tomatoes. Or paying property taxes absolves them from the need to pay income taxes. Or that being routinely involved with business dealing with other criminals is totally unrelated to those same criminals ripping them off and simultaneously expecting the police they allege to be criminals too to protect them.

First you believe in the holy gods Pot and Greed then every other ridiculous convenient self aggrandizing illogic falls right into place. It’s the same litany of “me, me, always me” that leads to such deep anger in the believer when the rest of the world finds it a silly monotony.

I guess we should just deputize all red necks and let them just steal from everybody. I mean its illegal to have so deputies should be entitled steal anything they want.
Property rights don’t matter.
Morals of “do not kill or steal” do not matter. There is a drug war to fight and money to steal….

Good job CHP, keep it up. For those commenters that are giving the “why” and “poor guy” get the hell out of Humboldt. We need this type of activity on a daily basis to clean the greedy, dumb ass, community destroying, environment damaging growers out of Humboldt.

How is stealing from our community members a “good job”?
What is so great about stealing small farmers pay checks when they are going to cash in their hard work?
How about we steal your paycheck just because we dont like what you do for a living….. reverse the roles, how would you like some guy with a gun stealing your property which belongs to you? Asset Forfeiture is nothing but legalized theft! Maybe they convinced themselves but deep down there is a sense of guilt and even the deputies know what they are doing is called theft and robbery and is wrong to the core of our civilization. The Officers are working with an organized criminal enterprise which goes around using violence fear trauma and guns to bully itself and rob steal and kill. No different than a band of highway robbers.

Yes, thank you Jeff Sessions for keeping the price high for all the Cartels to profit on.
It is so great we fight cannabis by increasing the price. NOT TO MENTION SESSIONS HAS BIG MONEY INVESTED IN THE US PRISON INDUSTRY, HE HAS LOTS TO GAIN!
But then again the CIA brought plane loads of cocaine to our inner cities in the 1980’s…. traded for confiscated weapons to the Contras… it isnt about stopping drugs, its about keeping a scarcity and the price high, YES THE US GOVERNMENT MAKES LOTS OF MONEY KEEPING DRUGS ILLEGAL.. wouldnt want poor people not in the high class cocaine circles in Washington to have access, got to keep the price high. Even during alcohol prohibition bootleggers were delivering moonshine to the whitehouse for the presidents poker games…. two sets of rules, one for the wealthy and one for the worker class… cocaine fits the lifestyle of the wealthy, pot the sore bodies of the poor working class… this is why we never ever barely hear of hard drug busts, but have a joint and they wanna search your whole property..

To all you greenhorns out there, you can get pulled over at anytime for driving around with dealership plates. Try driving cross ountry with dealership plates, you’ll be sure guaranteed to be pulled over just so law enforcement can check your paperwork in many states.

Boudreaux it sounds like you’re the greenhorn here because, you’re wrong, it is absolutely not illegal to drive with dealer plates on a vehicle (why do you think dealer plates exist in the first place? Duh!) and it is illegal for law enforcement to pull you over just because you have dealer plates. No doubt cops illegally pull people over everyday but they just lie about the reason for initiating the stop so they get away with it.

Sleepy Alligator must be a greenhorn when it comes to reading comprehension. Where did they say it was illegal? I missed that sentence.
Geez, it sounded more like they were offering a bit of advice from experience, a fair warning to all.

Crossed checked LOCO’s “booked” report and there’s no record of anyone being booked by the CHP or released yesterday after this time. Will it just be “asset forfeiture” or is someone making a deal and bigger fish will fry (in other words, part of an on-going investigation)? Either way it stinks.

Maybe the CHP just took the money and let them go, like hey ” you can go to jail and get an evidence receipt and we take the truck too… or we can just take the money and you can go home”…. Deputies do this all the time…… no report, no evidence, no arrest, no problem. Then they take a vacation to Mexico and have a blast, they pick up the departments steroids for everybody…. They make way more if they have a friend as a partner as the partners can stick together with their story. How many times have local farmers been subjected to theft and robberies by local law enforcement…. many …many.. times!

Interesting all the jealousy and hate being spewed on growers….
They must have forgotten that it is marijuana that built Humboldt, Marijuana which feeds Humboldt and Marijuana which keeps all of Humboldt’s businesses in operation. It is not pot haters and hypocrites, they do nothing but take from the system and create problems. Let them all move away to a place that is pot hater friendly. Nobody likes you folks here!

Isn’t this exactly what these Officers did….. Robbery is the crime of taking or attempting to take anything of value by force, threat of force, or by putting the victim in fear. According to common law, robbery is defined as taking the property of another, with the intent to permanently deprive the person of that property, by means of force or fear; that is, it is a larceny or theft accomplished by an assault.

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Thise stupid fuckers have done nothing but piss everyone off in a tight tiny neighborhood since they bought the place. Guaranteed it was the same [edit] that ran the white car with with woman and children off the road causing them to wreck.
Nobody wants you on the hill fuckoff [edit]v
The same idiots are shooting full auto weapons daily! Not exactly compliant if you ask me. Gonna call the ATF on these fuckers since the sheriff and dfw are useless then they might go away for a while